The 19th century French thinker Frédéric Bastiat is widely known for his strong economic positions in favor of free trade and individual liberty. I argue that these ideas must be studied alongside Bastiat’s core religious ...

Current trends in embedded platform design indicate that heterogeneous systems are here to stay. Thus, processors configured on the same platform may have different instruction-set architectures, different operating systems, ...

The cerebellar hypothesis of dyslexia posits that cerebellar deficits are associated with reading disabilities and may explain why some individuals with reading disabilities fail to respond to reading interventions. We ...

Genetic incompatibilities can emerge as a by-product of genetic divergence. According to Dobzhansky and Muller, alleles at different loci that have fixed in different genetic backgrounds may be incompatible when brought ...

The incidence of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and other sexually transmitted infections (STI) has increased among adolescents and young adults due to the prevalence of risky sexual behaviors. Adolescents with severe ...

The purpose of the study was to better understand predictive factors related to students’ likelihood to seek help at the university counseling center. While demographic and psychological variables have been identified as ...

The broad adoption of accelerators boosts the interest in accelerator programming models. OpenACC is an emerging and directive-based programming model for accelerators that typically enables non-expert programmers to achieve ...

This dissertation focuses on the synthesis and characterization of the AAg2(M’1 xMx)[VO4]2 series of compounds. These compounds are modifications of the parent type of compound, AAg2M[VO4]2. We have investigated the following ...

The study investigates the relative degree and timing of cortical activation in parietal, temporal, and frontal regions during simple arithmetic tasks in children who experience math difficulties. Real-time brain activity ...

Current accountability systems for programs serving English language learners (ELLs) focus on the achievement level of students who are still classified as “limited English proficient” (de Jong, 2004). Thus, there are no ...

The aim of the study was to investigate to what extent gender predicts academic procrastination among gifted and talented college students. The study consisted of 35 honor college undergraduate students enrolled in a large ...

Research skills are not routinely a part of medical school training. Medical students, however, are frequently required to conduct and disseminate research. The Academic Skills Building through Global Health project at the ...

Hadoop has been emerging as a popular distributed framework for data intensive
computing in clustered environments. The main usage has been in parallel computing
problems where interconnected clusters would transfer parts ...

In recent years, GPU computing has been very popular for scientific applications, especially after the release of programming languages like CUDA, OpenCL, and OpenACC. The growing popularity of GPU computation in commercial ...

Purpose: The purpose of this work was to gain an understanding of the impact that extrinsic, intrinsic and cognitive factors have on accommodative accuracy (lag) and variability (RMS) in young children with uncorrected ...

Determination of biological sex is one of the most important determinations to be made from undocumented human remains and is an essential first step in the development of the biological profile in forensics and bioarchaeology. ...

Twice-exceptional (2e) students have exceptional abilities and disabilities, which present challenges for educators to serve their needs in schools. Their abilities may overshadow their disabilities, thus camouflaging their ...

Technology has allowed libraries to expand access to their rare and unique special collections content for over twenty years. Since that time, librarians have also tried to evaluate the value of these efforts. Librarians ...